Subject: Time is running out and so are available vaccination dates
I have good news and bad news. The good news is a record number of corporations have scheduled their fall employee flu vaccination event. The bad news is we’re running out of available dates. Oct. 30th is the last day we’ll be able to take reservations and by then choices will be extremely limited! Click here and schedule your corporate event now while there’s a choice of available dates.
Alan Kohll, President
Vaccination Services of America
Health Fairs of America
www.vsamerica.com
Flu Shots Nationwide
Health Fairs Nationwide
Corporate Health
Health Benefit Strategy Consulting
888-434-4358
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Are Health Risk Appraisals Reliable?
Many of our clients and companies throughout the U.S. utilize and Health Risk Appraisal questionnaires to gather information on their employee population to gauge their employee health and wellness. The problem with these questionnaire is that they are subjective. If you ask an employee how many servings of fruits and vegetables they consume daily, they typically over-estimate this information. The value of these HRA is limited because of the subjectivity since they are self-reported rather than completed with the coaching of health educator or nurse.
Another problem centers around the lack of usage. Many companies offer an online and/or paper questionnaires, but voluntary participation is not significant enough for an accurate cross section of the population. The Health Risk Appraisal is designed to give each employee a picture of their current health status by a ranking scale. On a individual basis, this provides some qualtiy feedback on their health and makes some good recommendations for the individual. Again, this information is biased, but can provide some valuable health information that can promote behavior change.
The larger the cross section of employees that complete the HRA along with evaluating other information such as claim history and utilization reports helps to conceptualize the wellness status of an employee population taking into account some potential bias.
Alan Kohll
Vaccination Services of America
Health Faris of America
888-434-4358 x 102
http://www.vsamerica.com/
http://www.healthfairsamerica.com/
Corporate Health
Flu Shots
Flu Vaccinations
Health Fairs
Corporate Health
Nationwide Onsite Flu Shots
Another problem centers around the lack of usage. Many companies offer an online and/or paper questionnaires, but voluntary participation is not significant enough for an accurate cross section of the population. The Health Risk Appraisal is designed to give each employee a picture of their current health status by a ranking scale. On a individual basis, this provides some qualtiy feedback on their health and makes some good recommendations for the individual. Again, this information is biased, but can provide some valuable health information that can promote behavior change.
The larger the cross section of employees that complete the HRA along with evaluating other information such as claim history and utilization reports helps to conceptualize the wellness status of an employee population taking into account some potential bias.
Alan Kohll
Vaccination Services of America
Health Faris of America
888-434-4358 x 102
http://www.vsamerica.com/
http://www.healthfairsamerica.com/
Corporate Health
Flu Shots
Flu Vaccinations
Health Fairs
Corporate Health
Nationwide Onsite Flu Shots
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Corporate Health and ROI
A lot of companies are interested in corporate health, but don't know where to start.
To really impact behavior change in the right direction takes a total commitment to health and wellness. 85% of the health care costs come from 15% of the employees. Over 70% of health care costs stem directly from lifestyle choices by the employees.
Each company needs to examine its workforce in a number of different ways to impact change in the right direction. This involves working with the employees to determine what will impact a behavior change, what incentives are needed, what benefits are most important and how all this works together to improve both the company's performance and the employees health and productivity.
Health Fairs of America work with companies to determine what services they really needs to implement and corporate health and health benefit strategy. The typical company initially measures employees current health status using a health risk appraisal (HRA) questionnaire. This HRA assesses the current health status of each and every employee along with providing a detailed aggregate management report. Keep in mind that the employees are self reporting so the data is somewhat subjective.
In addition to the HRA, most companies sponsor on site health screenings which typically including cholesterol screenings, glucose, blood pressure, body-fat or height/weight/BMI measurements. Including the screening results with the HRA provides a better picture of each employees current health status.
Alan Kohll
President and CEO
Health Fairs of America (tm)
Vaccination Services of America, Inc.
888-434-4FLU (4358)
info@vsamerica.com
Corporate Health
Flu Shots
Health Fairs
Health Screenings
Corporate Flu shots
To really impact behavior change in the right direction takes a total commitment to health and wellness. 85% of the health care costs come from 15% of the employees. Over 70% of health care costs stem directly from lifestyle choices by the employees.
Each company needs to examine its workforce in a number of different ways to impact change in the right direction. This involves working with the employees to determine what will impact a behavior change, what incentives are needed, what benefits are most important and how all this works together to improve both the company's performance and the employees health and productivity.
Health Fairs of America work with companies to determine what services they really needs to implement and corporate health and health benefit strategy. The typical company initially measures employees current health status using a health risk appraisal (HRA) questionnaire. This HRA assesses the current health status of each and every employee along with providing a detailed aggregate management report. Keep in mind that the employees are self reporting so the data is somewhat subjective.
In addition to the HRA, most companies sponsor on site health screenings which typically including cholesterol screenings, glucose, blood pressure, body-fat or height/weight/BMI measurements. Including the screening results with the HRA provides a better picture of each employees current health status.
Alan Kohll
President and CEO
Health Fairs of America (tm)
Vaccination Services of America, Inc.
888-434-4FLU (4358)
info@vsamerica.com
Corporate Health
Flu Shots
Health Fairs
Health Screenings
Corporate Flu shots
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